Quotes About Freedom

Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

Thank God I have parents who'd support the crazy things I did. If my dad found a snake, I'd take it to the woods. I was always taking these homeless birds and homeless cats home.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don't play.

The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

"One word frees us all of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

In order to be free, we must learn how to let go.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

The child's progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.